Friday, 2 September 2016

A hunting magazine in an hospital?

I did not know anything about The Field, which is apparently and according to Wikipedia the world's oldest field sport magazine, when I saw one of its issue in the antenatal ward of the hospital where my wife and I went to for the first scan of our little Wolfie. What was strange was not that there was a hunting magazine among the reading available for the patients in the corridor where we were waiting for the scan, but that it was the only magazine available. And a few weeks later, there was the same magazine, with its cover ripped off. My wife, who is a vegetarian, found this barbaric and its presence kind of crass. Even I thought it was, well, odd.

This publication often shows up in our local GP waiting room too. Personally, I never pick up magazines in a hospital or waiting room as goodness only knows who has picked them up and what germs are lurking in the pages waiting to be spread about!As a vegetarian myself, I wholly empathise with your wife.